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And now, my watch has ended.

So, would anyone be kind enough to give the full list of all the monsters needing a match?

(You can place the list under a spoiler.)

Please and thank you.

Carry on,

--C.

Possible dates:

And my watch has already started.

And my watch has now ended

My watch. It has begun.

My watch has come to an end

My watch has begun!

How have you had an issue with a product that hasn’t even come out yet, exactly?

My watch is also now over.

Mangaholic13 wrote:

Kojo Imperial wrote:

What IS the weapon Ulka is carrying? Is it just a stylized glaive, or something more orc-specific?

My best guess is that it's either a glaive or a guisarme.

Probably a guisarme, since those are harder to know what they actually looked like.

Obviously she's an AD&D character and it's a glaive-guisarme.

Because it has to be done. Order of the Stick link

Just got notification of shipping…of the Pathfinder Society modules. Not the Paizo products I most want to receive at this time. Le sigh.

Sadly my watch continues

Calcryx666 wrote:

Still sitting here pending :-(

Same. Almost two weeks from authorization to shipping is unusual in my experience.

Oh, my sweet summer child...

It goes right up to the last day of expected subscription shipping and sometimes over.

Cuatomer Services. Send them a polite e-mail and in my experince they'll sort things pretty quickly
However, that email is likely referring to the transit time as the expected shipping window does not close until Friday 25th. Also, the shipping process didn't start for anyone until the 14th and as you received it on Wedneday 9th, thatis already pushing the 3-5 days window. you mention. To check, you can log into your account and check the status. If it is still pending, then you're in the queue with the rest of us and it's not been prepared for shipping yet.

*gallops up*
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
*gallops away*

Has now been announced.
The thread
My guesses were spot on. Go me.

Has not been announced yet.
At a guess, based on previous months:
The announcement that its coming will go up this week.
Shipping will begin next week for a two week period, 14/07/25 to 25/07/25
The book will be available on sale on the 31/07/25

Nobody asked yet so here I go: what's in the toolbox? (curious about he new critters especially)

Critters:

Animist Apparitions

Feats

Spells

Items

My watch is sadly not yet over. Le sigh.

Mostly versimilitude rather than a specific build.

The wild man who can deal with animals but can’t talk to humans is a pretty common trope, but that feat seems reasonably priced with its prerequisites.

The Acrobatic fencer is primarily a style thought. Most fictional swashbucklers seem to lean more heavily into agility than Strength and they’re the type who should be better at flashy maneuvers over regular damage. But, the explanation does make it seem more class feat territory. It’s something Swashbucklers, being flashy fighters do, rather than just any character.

Paul Watson wrote:

Acrobatic Fighter Feat 1

General, Skill
Prerequisites: Trained: Acrobatics
You can roll an Acrobatics check rather than Athletics to when using the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions.
Special: If a feat relates to the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions, you may use your proficiency in Acrobatics rather than Athletics to qualify.

This is a tough one to me because it feels somewhat natural to make these DEX-based actions, but Dexterity is also so much more useful than Strength. Athletic maneuvers are something that STR-based characters have going for them.

I'm wondering if the barrier to entry is too low? That is to say, level 1 is the perfect place to have these feats, but as skill feats they're... awkward. To begin you somewhat want to have these at level 1 and that won't be happening unless you're a skill monkey or you pick it up from a background. But after that, it's pretty free game for something that rolls some fairly important and powerful actions into a single powerful ability score. (Actually, the restraint in putting in only Disarm, Shove, and Trip, I think is very well-thought out.)

I can't help but wonder if these would work more as riders to class paths or class feats. Something like "As a gymnast swashbuckler, you may use Acrobatics in the place of Athletics for the Disarm, Shove, and Trip maneuvers." As skill feats they feel slightly restrictive while also being wildly accessible to the point of being "most martials should get this skill feat" - (and also, Acrobatics has some really decent skill feats already; hello Cat Fall and Kip Up.)

If it was a class feat, I'd roll Titan Fencer into it. Just using Acrobatics for some Athletics checks feels too little for class feat.

I'm not sure about all martials needing it. Most martials are going to have better Strength than Dexterity, so wouldn't get as much benefit.

Why does Nature Speaker grant a +1 bonus? It requiring Animal Empathy means it's going to be only selectable by druids, and those druids are already going to be seeing a big uptick in diplomatic effectiveness thanks to Nature keying off their Wisdom rather than Charisma.

Error caused by me forgetting I'd added the Animal Empathy requirement.

A couple of skill feats I'm using to better enable two common tropes: The flashy warrior who uses agility rather than brawn to move enemies around the battlefield and disarm them; and the gruff outdoorsman who can get along fine with animals but struggles to deal with humans.

Acrobatic Fighter Feat 1
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Trained: Acrobatics
You can roll an Acrobatics check rather than Athletics to when using the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions.
Special: If a feat relates to the Disarm, Shove or Trip actions, you may use your proficiency in Acrobatics rather than Athletics to qualify.

Nature Speaker Feat 1
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Trained: Nature, Animal Empathy
You can roll a Nature check instead of Diplomacy when attempting to Make an Impression or Request to animals. You receive a +1 status to Make an Impression on animals.

Titan Fencer Feat 2
General, Skill
Prerequisites: Acrobatic Fighter, Expert: Acrobatics
You can Disarm, Shove or Trip a creature up to two sizes larger than you, or up to three sizes larger than you if you are Legendary in Acrobatics.
Special: This feat counts as Titan Wrestler for purposes of qualifying for other feats, if those feats do not relate to Grapple

Any thoughts?

this is super cool to see, but i hope the "monsters" go a bit further than colourful skinned humanoid twinks and a guy that looks like Dabi from My hero Academia!

They include a romantic ooze and a dragon so at least some.

shroudb wrote:

I meant more in the sense of positioning your self in a good turn order to take full advantage of it, not in the sense of delaying AFTER you use the reaction to extend it.

In the same way that you may want to delay yourself after an enemy before Demoralizing him in order for the whole party to take advantage of that.

Ha ok, I misunderstood your point. But it's hard to do it then as you need the combat to be extremely stable (and if the GM is nasty, monsters can also Delay once they understand how your power works).

“Why are none of you doing anything??!”

“Gotta delay to fix the paladin, boss”

“But his allies aren’t delaying, are they? They’re carving you apart.”

“Might be a flaw in the plan, boss.”

Prince Maleus wrote:

I will be watching the streams

Good good! We'll be streaming live on Twitch! And, we'll have all the videos up after if you miss any!

Maya! For all the gods’ sake, don’t cross-promote the streams!!

My watch has begun

Michael Sayre wrote:

zergtitan wrote:

If we already got the previous pre-remaster version via subscription, will we be getting the remaster PDF update? or is this a completely different book?

If you already have the Guns & Gears PDF, you'll get the remaster version of the download automatically just like you would when we release a new printing with errata.

Is this policy still in effect? Or did it change?

I own the previous Guns and Gears pdf, but my account doesn't show the remastered one.

Thank you!!

It shows up as the originall e, updated on Dec 2024, if that helps

They did the Match? They did the Monster Match. Oh, yeahhhhhh.

Mr Jacibs demonstrates a masterful knowledge of players and player actions which is exemplified in one single sentence from this adventure: "However, such a fall is easy to avoid by simply not jumping into the machinery or off the edge!"

This is probably a silly question, but...juuuuuust to verify...is Gouging Claw a Cantrip?

Yes, I know it's called Cantrip 1. But...it doesn't have the Cantrip trait box. That's *probably* a mistake, but...I wonder if it was meant to maybe be a 1st rank spell rather than a Cantrip?

As near as I can tell, at least within Player Core 1, every other spell listed as a Cantrip has the Cantrip trait. Just Gouging Claw does not.

I didn't see a similar mention in this thread, so I thought I'd ask.

It is according to the Archives of Nethys which is the official Pathfindder 2E SRD-equivalent. This seems to support the theory that it is a misprint that it's missing the Cantrip trait.

And now my watch is over. Good fortune to those who remain.

It also serves to alert otherforumites that the shipping process is beginning, and to provide some proof that shipping is in process during the seemingly never-ending waits while it’ss not your order that’s shipping.

Can confirm the system has managed to send out the subscription is coming emails.
My watch begins.

Anyone willing to share the general effect (not verbatim mechanics) of Cenotaph Stance? Currently playing a level 15 Lastwall Sentry pre-Gravelands so I’m interested to see if any of these will become my next feat choice!

It’s a “you shall not pass” stance. You gain temporary hp every round. You can Shield Block for allies within 15ft. You gaina a bonus reaction to Shield Block. You can’t move while in the stance.

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

Will the Knights of Last Wall archetypes be updated to the remaster here?

Bump, bump

The Knight Reclaimant, Knight Vigilant and Lastwall Sentry each gain three new archetype feats. These are new feats rathe than updates of existing ones. All are high level (16+).

The feats are

The Halcyon Speaker and Magaambyan Attendant also get new feats. There are no new archetypes in the book.

My watch has begun.

I thought that Paizo was only doing the core books as remaster? I went and bought all the physical books about a year ago with that information and now I look at what new books are available and find things like this, Guns and Gears and Treasure Vault are remastered now too. What about things like Book of the Dead or Secrets of Magic or Dark Archive? All that money spent on now out of date books. I'm aware of AoN and errata, but I shouldn't have to go to others sources and flip though printed errata to find differences. I would've held off on buying all these books if they hadn't had made a statement saying the core books only were getting a remastered edition.

The books are remastred because they were due for a second printing and errata pass and it makes no sense not to remaster them at that point as you’ll be looking over the rules anyway. The changes are more in line with an errata pass than a complete rewrite, so it’s no different to any other errated book.

Was this book supposed to be in the rulebook sub? I thought it had initially said it would be and have been looking forward to it but now it looks like it isn’t and the next one is the npc core.

It was announced upthread that this, and presumably other Remastered updates, are not part of the Rules subscription. If you have the product already, it’s pdf will be updated. If you subscribed later, or want a new physial copy, you need to buy normally.

My watch, too, has begun.

As for the word "spread" that's not a typo nor a new slang term. It's a standard word for "a form of food that's smeared on or over a surface," like peanut butter or jam or the like. The idea being that the elves are accepting a non-elven method of reducing foods to things like jam or jelly or pate or the like.

As a British person, I felt my food culture personally attacked by this section. :-)

And my watch has ended

You can destroy a Thrall for a focus point.

Am I crazy, or is there not a link to a PDF document with the classes in it like previous playtests?

I cannot answer if you’re crazy (although as you’re here, signs point to yes), but I can’t see the link, either.

The link to Demiplane also doesn’t work.

KingTreyIII wrote:

WHERE'S DESKARI?!

Spoiler reason?

[Poe Dammaran]Somehow…Deskari returned.

My watch, too, has ended. Inconceivable!

As I finally updated the spreadsheet of deities, some facts on the Domains provided:

Most popular Domains: Protection (77)
Knowledge (76)
Might (73)
Nature (67)
Trickery (63)

Least Popular: Dust (7)
Introspection(7)
Wood (6)
Abomination (4)
Naga: (2)

More popular as an Alternate Doman:
Toil (12 v 20)
Metal (10 v 12)
Dust (7 v 8)
Introspection (7 v 17)
Abomination (4 v 5)

The two that really stand out there are Toil and Introspection. Much more popular to give to gods as secondary activities
Soul (12 v12) and Naga (2 v 2) are equally popular as Domains and Alternate Domains

Dammerich has Truth as both a Domain and an Alternate domain. Presuming the alternate domain should be None?

Paul Watson wrote:

In the summary table, Neshen has identifal edicts and anathema which might be tricky to follow.

What should the Knight of the Steel Lashes’ anahema be?

Luis Loza posted here about a week ago with a clarification on that.

Luis Loza wrote:

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

Noticed an error on Page 308 in the Appendix: In the line for Neshen (Knight of the Steel Lash), near the bottom, his edicts and anathema are identical, which I think isn't intentional. I can't imagine a god who exhorts you to "lead others to the light of good," while also forbidding it.

Thanks for catching this! The proper anathema should read "stop taking care of yourself, wallow in self-pity, refuse to right past wrongs."

Thanks. I searched for Neshen and got no findings.